When is a desert a “water of the United States”?
When the government says so.
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Dec, 2012
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Oct, 2012
Pacific Legal Foundation urges Supreme Court to give business owners their day in court
Today, we filed this petition for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court, asking the justices to review a case that severely restricts Americans’ right to challenge the constitutionality of laws. The case, Hettinga v. United States, began when Arizona dairy owners Hein and Ellen Hettinga sued over a federal law that [...]
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Oct, 2012
Challenging America’s most anti-competitive licensing law
I filed a lawsuit this morning challenging the constitutionality of what may be the nation's most restrictive "Certificiate of Necessity" law. You can read about the case at PLF Liberty Blog.
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Aug, 2012
Fighting for economic liberty in Kentucky
Meet R.J. Bruner and his crew. Bruner (in the middle, there) is one of the many hardworking entrepreneurs who keep our economy thriving—and whose hard work and ingenuity improve the standard of living for all of us. Of course, when he founded Wildcat Moving two years ago, he didn’t do it as an act of [...]
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May, 2012
The founders and the primacy of liberty
Prof. Samuelson has a thorough response to my post about John Adams and individual liberty. While it’s true I’m not a great admirer of Adams (I’m much fonder of his son), my point was not biographical or historical, but philosophical: democracy is an instrumental good, one that is valuable only insofar as [...]
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May, 2012
Should we ask permission for our rights?
At the Liberty Law Blog, Prof. Richard Samuelson argues that John Adams’ defense of religious liberty offers a model for our own day. Adams refused to write Article III of the Massachusetts Constitution—which provided for an established church—because it was inconsistent with his belief in religious freedom. Instead, Samuelson writes, “Adams punted,” [...]
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Apr, 2012
Paleo Diet Blogger Threatened With Jail Time
Steve Cooksey is a former diabetic, who decided to start the popular “Paleo” diet. Not only did he lose weight, he became insulin free on the low carb, caveman diet. So he decided to share his success on his blog. But Steve ran into a problem in the form of the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition, [...]
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Jan, 2012
If You Read About Politics, You Should Read These Guys: Greenwald and Friedersdorf
Between my first year of law school and two young children, I have really cut down on the amount of media I read in a given day. I tend to follow a pattern of checking the headlines at the New York Times, and then looking to see if any members of the Supreme Court [...]
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Jan, 2012
Defending the right to earn a living in Missouri
Today Pacific Legal Foundation filed this motion in the case of St. Louis entrepreneur Michael Munie, asking the court to strike down a Missouri state law that essentially forbids anyone from going into the moving business without first getting permission from the existing moving companies. To be more precise, it’s illegal to [...]
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Jan, 2012